For the night before Thanksgiving, ABC has penciled in " Primetime: Celebrity Plastic Surgery Gone Too Far?" Is that the program you want to watch before the big feast? The program features Heidi Montag and Janice Dickinson . Does their inclusion answer the title? The special will air at 10 p.m. Nov. 24 on WFTV-Ch. 9. Another subject will be Pete Burns of the British band Dead or Alive. ABC says Burns "sees plastic surgery as an art form – and himself as the clay.

It's so easy, once you're in the clutches of home improvement, to keep improving. The new paint makes the cabinets look bad. The new cabinets make the appliances look bad. The new appliances make the floor look bad. The new kitchen makes the bathroom seem dated, and pretty soon you're fixing up the neighbor's house. "While we're at it" are the most expensive words in home improvement. But stop short, and your home can end up looking like one of those women who have their faces lifted so tight they could have come out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, while their necks are still as wobbly as a Tom Turkey's.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A man is accused of taking money from his 90-year-old mother to buy expensive gifts and services. Police say 56-year-old Roland Lawrence Jacobs of Largo took the money without his mother's knowledge. He used the money on plastic surgery, tanning salons and gifts for others. Jacobs was arrested Monday on a charge of scheme to defraud. Authorities say Jacobs' sister noticed money missing from her mother's accounts and alerted police. The sister has power of attorney over their mother's affairs.

You probably know a beer snob - somebody who only drinks certain brews. You may even know a pizza snob or a sushi snob. Chances are, as Orlando expands its backyard chicken program, you'll come to know an egg snob - if you don't already. Fresh eggs are so much better, they say. They taste better. They look better. They even have a better feel, claim the eggheads. But are backyard eggs really all they're cracked up to be? I was skeptical, so I set up a taste test. I don't question the basic benefits of raising backyard chickens.

Felicia DeBetta is considering plastic surgery for a 4-year-old child who was born with Down's syndrome. She has been agonizing over the decision for months.''As he grows older, we would like to give him more normal opportunities than if he didn't have the facial stigma,'' said DeBetta, who lives on Staten Island in New York. ''I don't want him to be trapped by what he looks like. . . . At the same time, if his appearance looks 'normal,' I wonder if we will be putting him in a position where expectations will be greater.

Question: A recent article in the paper was about a 15-year-old girl who was seeking breast-enlargement surgery with her mother's blessing. There seemed to be a lot of concern about this, presumably because of her young age. Is there a minimum age for plastic surgery? Answer: The answer to this question depends on whether you are speaking of cosmetic or reconstructive surgery and must take into consideration both physical and psychological concerns. Reconstructive surgery is done routinely on children and even infants.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rican prosecutors are investigating the death of a woman who underwent breast reduction surgery in the Dominican Republic. She is the second plastic surgery patient to die this month.Migdalia Cordero Cabrera, 26, had a breast reduction operation in Santo Domingo on Sept. 2, prosecutor Antonio Figueroa said. Cordero was hospitalized for an unspecified infection and died this week in the Rio Piedras Medical Center. Cordero had her operation one day after the death of 26-year-old Dhelmalyz Rios Rivera, who underwent plastic surgery on her calves on Aug. 15.Rios Rivera died from blood poisoning and an embolism that blocked blood vessels, investigators said.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- A top South African private hospital will open an Internet auction today offering a range of plastic surgery operations from breast reductions to fat removal with a starting price of one rand (14 cents). "The bidding will be open-ended for one operation per day during the week. The operation will go to the highest bidder," Jack Shevel, chief executive officer of Netcare, South Africa's biggest private hospital group, said. Bidders logging on to www.bidorbuy.co.

Christmas is coming early for one Longwood teen-ager - December 17 to be exact. That's the day she gets her long-awaited new nose.The 14-year-old, who didn't want her name used, has been considering plastic surgery for three years now, ever since people began commenting on her striking resemblance to Barbra Streisand.''I don't have crossed eyes, so it must be my nose,'' she said in a recent interview.A few weeks ago, her parents accompanied her to a plastic surgeon, who assured them that he could reshape her nose to maximum effect with a minimum of discomfort.

Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, who eluded countless police raids and an eight-year manhunt, appeared Sunday to have died from botched plastic surgery. Mexican authorities referred Saturday night to the ''probable death of the drug trafficker Amado Carrillo Fuentes.'' But they said they needed more tests to confirm the identity of a man who died of a heart attack after plastic surgery and liposuction Friday night in a private Mexico City clinic.

WHAT: The Winter Park Playhouse continues its 10 t h -anniversary Series with the Central Florida premiere of a musical comedy about empty nesters. "The Kids Left. The Dog Died. Now What?" opens Friday, March 8. As introduced on NBC's "Today Show," this musical by Carole Caplan-Lonner takes a look at aging and the ensuing issues, including dating, divorce, plastic surgery, the AARP and the effects of gravity. Roy Alan will direct the cast, which includes three newcomers to the Playhouse stage: Amy Martin Cole, Jeff Aames and Frank Siano.

If recent headlines about Adrienne Maloof and Paul Nassif's messy separation are any indication, Season 3 of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" is going to be a doozy. And the new sneak-peek of the upcoming season certainly promises lots of drama -- and lady kissing! In addition to some girl-on-girl pecks, there's Suzanne Somers talking about sex, Kim Richards undergoing plastic surgery, Brandi Glanville tearfully confronting one of her ex's flings (not LeAnn Rimes), Camille Grammer making out with her super-hot boyfriend, ladies fighting, husbands fighting, and a Beverly Hills mansion burning!

Bravo's little-watched "Real Housewives of Miami" returned on Thursday, Sept. 13 with four new additions to the cast. How did newbies Lisa Hochstein, Joanna Krupa, Lea Black and Karent Sierra mesh with returning cast members Ana Quincoces, Adriana de Moura and Marysol Patton? De Moura, an art dealer, showed her true colors almost immediately as she whined about the lack of amenities on the old yacht that her husband bought and intended to refurbish. Plus, who wears spiky heels to what is essentially a construction site?

Darren O'Day doesn't just transcend the dumb-jock stereotype. He shatters it into tiny pieces. He scored high enough on his entrance exam to get into medical school. Scored high enough on another entrance exam to get into law school. But right now he's too content with his gig as a quietly effective side-arm reliever for the Orioles to think about doing anything else. "I knew I wanted to play baseball," the 29-year-old right-hander says now. "You can't give up that opportunity for anything.

Sometime soon, a physician is likely to sit at the bedside of Ronald Poppo and explain to the homeless Miami man what much of the world already knows — that his face is gone and he will never again look the way he thinks he does. Yet even as the 65-year-old learns what happened to him 12 days ago when a deranged stranger gouged out one of his eyes and chewed off his forehead, nose, an eyelid and his lips, Poppo may struggle to grasp the implications of the attack, experts say. "What they all say is, 'I've become a monster,'" said Daniel Alam, a plastic surgeon at Cleveland Clinic who helped transplant a face onto a Connecticut woman mauled by a pet chimpanzee in 2009.

Adali Gutierrez rarely mentioned his scarred and disfigured chin. He kept quiet about the mangled lower lip that twisted when he talked. A 21-year-old raising four orphaned siblings had bigger worries. Today, however, he speaks without hesitation. A plastic surgeon has fashioned him a new lip and smoothed over the divots in his skin. Faded are the lesions that reminded him constantly of the night his parents were gunned down in Mexico . It was January 2010. Maria and Guillermo Sr. had arrived at a police station to bail out Adali, who had been stopped for drunk driving.

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- Stepping up the hunt for their biggest enemy, Russia's security services said Wednesday that they would pay for plastic surgery for anyone who gives information leading to the killing or capture of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, on top of the $10 million reward already promised. Meanwhile, a top prosecutor told The Associated Press that a leader of the militants in the seizure of more than 1,000 hostages at a school in Beslan in September had implicated the late rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov in the attack, which left more than 330 dead.

NEW YORK -- Olivia Goldsmith, the novelist whose savagely funny debut book, The First Wives Club, became a revenge fantasy for wives tossed aside in favor of younger women, has died of complications of plastic surgery. She was 54. Goldsmith, a successful management consultant before she took up writing, died Thursday at Lenox Hill Hospital, her lawyer said. Goldsmith had been in a coma since she suffered a heart attack Jan. 7 as she went under anesthesia for a procedure to remove loose skin from her chin.

Watch out, Botox . The chin implant is the fastest growing cosmetic procedure among all demographics, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Blame the vanity spawned by a digital age of video-conferencing. The ASPS cannot say exactly why chin augmentations soared 71 percent, from 12,077 in 2010 to 20,680 the following year — in both men and women. But anecdotal evidence suggests video chat technology is introducing people to a new side of themselves, and increasingly, they're not happy with the puffy visage staring back.

Since returning to the spotlight as the star of ABC's "Missing," Ashley Judd has been scrutinized by the media. Articles and blogs have commented on her puffy-looking face and speculated about her weight gain and possible plastic surgery. In a new column, Judd takes aim at the media, calling the comments about her appearance "a misogynistic assault on women. " "We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of personhood to simple physical objectification.